| Common Name | Adanson's moon snail |
| Language | English |
| Type | FAO |
| Official Trade Name | No |
| Rank | 3 - (Other common name) |
| Country | Global |
| Locality | |
| Ref. | FAO-FIES, 2022 |
| Life Stage | juveniles and adults |
| Sex | females and males |
| Core | morphology |
| 1st Modifier | person (eponym) |
| 2nd Modifier | |
| Remarks | 'snail', from Old High German 'snahhan', i.e., 'to creep'; 'moon' here refers to the smooth globular shells of species in this family; Adanson stands for Michel Adanson (1727-1806), French naturalist who to an expedition to Senegal in the late 1740s, col. Also in Ref. 122997. |